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RE: [ECS] DOS Version of ECS Michael David Sat, 6 May 2000 21:45:51 -0400

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Hey - sounds like my life!  :)

My first computer was a TRS-80 Model I, when they first came out.  I spent a
boat-load of money (at the time) on the thing.  Everyone around me,
including my family thought was crazy.  I remember clearly saying, over and
over, "computers will be a way of life someday, and everyone will have one.
Just you wait and see!"

>From the TRS-80, I went to a Commodore Pet, then to a Kaypro, then to an
Apple II, then to the Mac 128 (Serial # 62 - which I still have in it's soft
case somewhere).  The next four years brought a Mac 512, a Mac Plus, a then
Mac II.  At some point I grew weary of paying so much money to keep up with
Apple's newest!

Much like you, I got the robot bug somewhere in the mid to late 80's.  So I
also picked up a Hero 1.  That's one toy I wish I had kept!

Around 1988 or so, I too decided I wanted to try to program my own X10
control app.  So, I bought my very first PC, and a copy of Borland C.  After
beating my head against the wall for months (I'm not much of a programmer),
I finally got it to work. It was actually rather impressive (or I thought
so), but then I saw Dynasty - which looked like it did so much more, and
would save me from all that head-banging. :)

The rest, as they say, is history.  :)

Cheers!

Michael David
michael@michaeldavid.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Wizard [mailto:wizard@wizmo.net]
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 11:25 AM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
Subject: RE: [ECS] DOS Version of ECS

I bought Dynasty 1.0 and a Dynaface from Barclay Brown at Home Automation
Labs at Comdex Spring in Atlanta in 1991.  Before that, I had been running
my house on self-written software / self built hardware on a Kaypro CPM
machine.  Before that, I had been doing extensive X10 control on my TRS-80.

ECS DOS 3.3 is still running most of my house.  As I get time, I am slowly
moving items and events to a new machine running ECS Win 4.0

I still have my TRS-80 Color Computer, Serial number 0000006.  And my
Heathkit Hero 1 Robot, Serial number 0003.  Now, who remembers those?


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael David [mailto:michael@michaeldavid.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 11:19 PM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
Subject: RE: [ECS] DOS Version of ECS


Sure do - I started with Dynasty way back in 91. I think it was version 1
back then.  :)

Cheers!

Michael David
michael@michaeldavid.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Wright [mailto:lwright@netcom.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 10:04 PM
To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
Subject: Re: [ECS] DOS Version of ECS


On Wed, 3 May 2000, Martin Terry wrote:

> Does anyone still have/use the DOS version of ECS? 3.4.x?

I might win the most-ancient-version-still-running prize. Running Dynasty
3.0 (aka ECS) - been running 24/7 for *many* years :-).

Anyone old enough to remember that <g>?

Larry

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